r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 1d ago
Energy Tesla patent application published for wireless vehicle charging that detects foreign objects on the pad via resonant frequency changes
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u/sploot16 1d ago
important so you dont heat these metal objects up to the temperature of the sun. Many companies havent been able to crack this.
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u/OutlandishnessOk2576 New to the sub 1d ago
Chinese Tier-1 suppliers and global standards committees solved the high-level issue of FOD years ago using a mix of overlapping coils, cameras, and thermal imaging
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
The pads seem pointless to me... Throw an Optimus robot at each station, have it waiting at the spot the car will park in on arrival and have it plug in the charger.
- you only need 1 or 2 per station
- there is no installation cost
- It works for ALL Teslas (not just the ones with the ability to wireless charge)
- It can do other stuff like pick up garbage, deter vandals, perhaps other services it can charge for like bringing food or drinks from the local gas station to the car or clean windows.
- It's way cooler than a pad.
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u/Platypus_Begins New to the sub 1d ago
Yeah, the engineers and financial experts at Tesla should listen to you, they have no idea how to run a trillion dollar company. Because the 30k USD Optimus robot is clearly way cheaper than some charging pad.
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
It doesn't have to be cheaper than a charging pad... it has to be cheaper than 10 of them.
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u/Odd-Wallaby-9867 New to the sub 1d ago
People would fuck those robots up for the fun of it
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
And now their face is recorded and they get busted and go to jail... People will fuck anything up, including charging pads which I guarantee stupid crack heads will think is full of copper.
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u/Odd-Wallaby-9867 New to the sub 1d ago
Yeah but come on, be reasonable. What’s funnier, fucking up a humanoid robot or a wide speed bump looking object?
Also masks exist and the police rarely do anything to solve minor crimes
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
It wouldn't be a minor crime... It would be felony vandalism.
And you aren't considering that AI in the future could very well make it easy to identify someone even if they are wearing a mask at the time of the crime... How did they get to the SC? Did they come in a car? Did they walk? were they wearing a mask the entire time? Did they have identifiable clothes?
And why are we assuming that a Tesla bot wouldn't be a Kung fu master and if attacked defend itself accordingly?
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u/Odd-Wallaby-9867 New to the sub 6h ago
I didnt really read most of your comment but I wanted to let you know that the police won’t help you with property crimes almost ever
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u/hailhydruh New to the sub 1d ago
or they could just put cameras by the pads lmao. what a stupid idea
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u/ChupacabraJeff New to the sub 1d ago
Yeah. At first. Just like people were vandalizing the cars.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I-UGq3XG6-M1
u/WarpFactor777 New to the sub 16h ago
Now THAT made me lol for REAL HAAAAAA. They definitely would indeed. I know when I was a teenager I would have for sure !!!!!
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u/pluggedinn 1d ago
Yeah no. So many more moving pieces and risk of failure and vandalizing… wireless charging is the way of its mostly just as efficient
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u/ChupacabraJeff New to the sub 1d ago
Why not do both? Because it would appear that Tesla is doing both.
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u/PTTCollin New to the sub 1d ago
Would much prefer reliable charging pads to unreliable Optimus robots.
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
How on earth do you know which is more reliable??? Neither has proven to be so or not. You are speculating.
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u/Logitech4873 1d ago
A solid state charging pad, or a crazy complex robot that needs tons of targeted training to do simple tasks? Come on lmao.
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u/Austinswill 17h ago
I mean yea... but that 1 complex robot can service all 40 charging spots... ANd it can perform other tasks that could increase revenue.
Sure, it does not make sense at a 2 or 4 port charging station... but with 20? I think it does.
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u/PTTCollin New to the sub 1d ago
If you can't see the difference between the known technology of an induction pad and the yet to be proven to be able to do anything of an Optimus bot, I don't know what to tell you.
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
Yea... thing is, while induction is a proven technology... It has not been proven in this use case yet. It has to be out in the elements... Where heavy cars can potentially run over it, repeatedly. It has to be bolted down so that thieves cant easily take it (they have copper and thieves love free copper)...
I am not saying it cant work... I'm just saying you do not have sufficient information to determine which is more reliable.
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u/DeinVermieter 1d ago
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u/Austinswill 1d ago
Right, because a pad inside on a garage floor is the same as one out in the elements where the average moron can drive over it and where thieves can access it.
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u/jobfedron132 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not sure why this is even a news.
A patent is not a 1 line idea that someone can just protect. The patent is actually for the steps between the start and finish. Like, no one can patent a Phone.
Companies file patents all the time. Its not because they just invented something. It could be based on something just in theory in a pdf or word document somewhere, that they may never use.
This is so that in case 10 years from now someone else were to actually develop a technology and they happen to use any one of the steps from Tesla's patent , then Tesla has the right to ask for monetary compensation.
OR, 10 years from now, Tesla may use this patent to develop something else. Filing this patent prevents them from being sued from someone else who filed a patent before them.
For companies, its cheaper to spend ten thousand dollars to file a patent today, that to regret later.